A 24-Year-Old AI Prodigy Built a $20 Billion Hedge Fund—Then Its Biggest Bets Collapsed
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a multibillion-dollar AI hedge fund before a sharp technology sell-off forced a major portfolio unwind.
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Britain Says It May Regulate Frontier AI if Voluntary Safety Agreements Fail
The UK says it may introduce stronger laws for advanced AI models if voluntary safety testing fails to protect the public from emerging risks.
China’s MiniMax Launches an Open AI Video Model With 2K Images and Native Stereo Sound
MiniMax’s H3 can generate 15-second 2K videos with native stereo sound and may soon release its weights for developers to customise.
ChatGPT Has Quietly Become the US Congress’s Favourite Paid AI Tool
US House offices spent around $100,580 on ChatGPT, accounting for approximately 90% of recorded congressional AI-tool expenditure.
The White House Calls OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic In for AI Hacking Tests
The White House has invited four leading AI companies to discuss voluntary government tests measuring whether frontier models can conduct cyberattacks.
DeepSeek’s New AI Model Is Reportedly 100 Times Cheaper to Run Than Claude Fable 5
DeepSeek’s V4 Flash costs more than 100 times less to run than Claude Fable 5 in benchmark tests, renewing the AI price war.
Alibaba Unveils a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter AI Model That Challenges America’s Frontier Labs
Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen 3.8 Max has climbed global AI leaderboards, intensifying China’s challenge to leading US models.
OpenAI’s Unreleased Astra Model Cracks Ten Long-Standing Mathematics Problems
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Social Platforms Are Finally Turning Against AI Slop
YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn and other platforms are tightening rules as low-effort AI content overwhelms feeds and threatens human creators.
Hank Green Apologised After Viewers Suspected ChatGPT Had Entered His Video Script
YouTuber Hank Green apologised for relying heavily on AI after viewers spotted a phrase that sounded like an accidental chatbot response in a video.